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“Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.”
— Unattributed
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- efb0f6f5bcf9c681ff0d50ff38039f6bcce0f0a21b2389a3769b31688b72b4fa
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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